Experience is itself a species of knowledge that involves understanding – Immanuel Kant Though doing everything without conscious thought may be a simple life (and maybe even a Good life), does it lead to understanding why a simple is good?* Anyway, I think it does, for it’s constant consciousness that …

Imagine from the start of your life, that you’ve never seen, touched, heard, smelt or tasted anything… What would you understand, and what would you imagine about the world? Is it possible that maybe you could understand the universe in one way we do? Some ways? All ways? Or in …

Do other mammals, reptiles, blades of couch grass exhibit consciousness? And do they even have any? Or are all their decisions (?) and actions unconsciously performed? All for the good of their own species, own family, own 1×1 metre square of fellow couch grass blades? Sure, an examined life does help …

Do other animals in Animalia compromise? For their own, or for their mutual goals (which you could argue are ultimately selfish*) goals? If life is so god damn short as shit, is their a point in compromising and sacrificing what you think makes you happy and makes you you, for someone …

It’s not situations of people that make you angry, upset or feel disappointed. It’s your reaction to it. If something is not going your way, or not how you expect it, it’s not the thing that is making you feel like crap, it’s you. You control your reaction to it.

In the intro to the ‘Alien Contact’ event at next month’s World Science Festival in Brisbane it says: Humanity is on the verge of discovering alien life…NASA estimates we’ll find definitive evidence of aliens within 20 to 30 years. Which begs the question: And then what? But really? Are we? Firstly, why …

Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value. Just because my dog Chunky gets excited when I come home doesn’t mean that he remembers me. Our view of nature is skewed in a way that if it must act in …

Sidenote: Now this is another potentially flammable issue that contains that pesky thing known as emotion, but I’m going to attempt to address this issue in as dispassionate way as I can, for the purposes of a valid discussion. I’ve been married, and now I’m not. So, where I previously …

The past is not an indicator of (and definitely doesn’t prove) the future. But maybe the past doesn’t even prove the past. Our perceptions and memories all twist with time, but maybe the past get can totally twisted in ways it’s hard to imagine…